Teaching English Through Collaborative Learning: An Experimental Study

Education

This study aims to explore the use of collaborative learning as a teaching strategy in teaching the 3rd quarter modules in English 10 and to compare it to the traditional way of teaching. This study was conducted at Monkayo National High School at Magysaysay Street, Poblacion, Monkayo Davao de Oro, wherein the grade 10 students were the subjects of the study. Two groups, the control, and the experimental group, were subjected to comparison. The control group used the traditional way of teaching the 3rd quarter modules in English 10, while the experimental group was taught using collaborative learning in teaching the 3rd quarter modules in English 10. Collaborative learning is a process whereby a group of learners acquires knowledge from one another by working together to solve a certain problem, complete a given task, create a product, or share individual perspectives. This study is a quasi-experiment pretest-posttest nonequivalent group design, where each group was given a pretest and posttest to determine the impact of the intervention on the development of the learner's academic performance before and after the intervention was conducted. The result of the study shows that there is no significant difference be between the control group and the experimental group. However, it is visible in the mean scores of the two group that the experimental group is slightly greater than the control group's mean score, which means that it is an effective teaching strategy to improve the learners' academic performance in Grade 10. This study's findings would benefit the students, teachers, school administrators, and future researchers by allowing them to use the information to address the issue of academic performance.

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